Today's Fresh Blogs...

• US health care: waiting for Godot [Effect Measure]

  Published: July 26, 2007, 4:34 pm

  Tags: Health Care

  count on defenders of US health care for much, but you can always count on them to allege that in Canada and other "socialized health care" systems there are long waits for elective surgery. Wait times for a hip replacement in Canada have been alleged as long as 6 months, although I don't know if that is generally true or not. Whatever the

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• Research Paper Presents Serosorting As More Dangerous

  Published: July 23, 2007, 1:53 pm

  Tags: Academia, Public Policy, Health Care, Mathematics, Science, Aids, Hiv

  As Gabriel Rotello and Andrew Sullivan debate whether "AIDS is over" in an ongoing online hissy fit of battling blog posts, Mad Professah came across the results of a study which bolsters Rotello's argument that "sero-sorting" (the practice of sorting your sexual partners by HIV status and then having unprotected sex with people of the same

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• Controversy Over Rejected Trojan Condom Pig Ad

  Published: July 21, 2007, 11:03 am

  Tags: Sex, Health Care, Kulturkampf, Sexuality, Media, Aids, Hiv

  Well, here is the condom ad that was too controversial for network television! Decide for yourself.

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• Canadian Universal Health Care Is Truly Sicko

  Published: July 29, 2007, 10:07 am

  Tags: Health Care

  the truth about Canadian health care.I was once a believer in socialized medicine. As a Canadian, I had soaked up the belief that government-run health care was truly compassionate. What I knew about American health care was unappealing: high expenses and lots of uninsured people. My health care prejudices crumbled on the way to a medical

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• Elizabeth Edwards at BlogHer 07 Part 3

  Published: July 29, 2007, 2:40 pm

  Tags: Amp 039 06 Sessions Speakers, Blogher Conferences, Health Amp Amp Wellness, Politics Amp Amp News, Blogher07 Elizabeth Edwards Hillary Clinton Universal Health Care

  In Part 3, Elizabeth finishes her statements regarding universal health care, Hillary Clinton, and raising taxes.

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• Krugman on Bush and S-Chip

  Published: July 30, 2007, 8:21 am

  Tags: Universal Health Care, Health Science, George W Bush

  decade-old State Children's Health Insurance Program before it expires this year. It's a no-brainer, right? Who's going to balk at an established, successful program that offers health insurance for kids? As it turns out, the president is. Is it because he doesn't think the program works? No, the administration acknowledges that S-CHIP

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• In Sickness And In Hell, Part II

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Health Care

  Some would argue that health care falls under the "life" part. But there is no right to demand something from someone else for free. And that is the crux of the health care argument -- people want free health care, but they don't want to think about just how that happens: "Health care" means people providing services and material goods

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• Another Canadian Speaks Against Health Care System, Moore

  Published: July 30, 2007, 4:45 pm

  Tags: Health Care

  in Canada. And I know the health-care system of my native country much more intimately than Moore. There's a good reason why my former countrymen with the money to do so either use the services of a booming industry of illegal private clinics, or come to America to take advantage of the health care that Moore denounces. Government-run health

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• In Sickness And In Hell, Part I

  Published: July 30, 2007, 7:00 am

  Tags: Health Care

  once again the notion of "health care reform" is rearing its ugly head yet again. I'm no expert, but I have a few observations and opinions. The first is that we don't have a health care crisis in this country. We have a health care funding crisis right now, and it's threatening to bring about an actual crisis in health care, but that is a

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• When Mental Patients Get Lost in the System [Retrospectacle: A Neuroscience Blog]

  Published: August 1, 2007, 1:45 pm

  Tags: Health Care

  There's an interesting article up at CNN today regarding families who have "lost" loved ones in mental institutions over the years. One in particular is making a movie about the little sister he thought was gone. One day in 1957, when Jeff Daly was 6 years old, his little sister, Molly, disappeared. Jeff Daly's efforts to find his sister,

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• Common Sense and the CMAs Campaign for the Partial Privatization of Health Delivery

  Published: August 2, 2007, 6:11 pm

  Tags: Privatization, Cma, Public Health Care

  the part-privatization of health delivery services. To be fair, a lot of health delivery services in Canada are actually private. For instance, much like in the UK, for some bizarre reason dental care isn't part of 'free at the point of delivery' care that public health care systems usually take pride in. Pride one should take in such public

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• The Man with a (Non) Plan

  Published: August 3, 2007, 7:29 pm

  Tags: Universal Health Care, Rudy Giuliani

  about Rudy Giuliani’s health care plan today. And I would, if Rudy Giuliani had a health care plan. But Rudy Giuliani doesn’t have a health care plan. What he has is a pretext with which to attack the Democrats. Indeed, just about all you need to know about Giuliani’s thoughtfulness on the issue can be summed up by the

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• The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Health Care

  medicine has meant rationed care and lack of innovation. Small wonder Canadians are looking to the market. Mountain-bike enthusiast Suzanne Aucoin had to fight more than her Stage IV colon cancer. Her doctor suggested Erbitux a proven cancer drug that targets cancer cells exclusively, unlike conventional chemotherapies that

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• Side Rails Down; Bed in Highest Position - We're Screwed! [The Cheerful Oncologist]

  Published: August 5, 2007, 6:53 pm

  Tags: Health Care Policy

  anything less than perfect care. The result was a repetitive - nay, interminable, tedious, irksome collection of about a hundred paragraphs that contained just under ten percent factual information. The rest was just a pile of crap that I inferred was placed there for the sole purpose of vexing malpractice lawyers. Read the rest of this

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• The Year of Living Dangerously in Health Reform in California

  Published: August 3, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Health Care

  By Sara Rogers Health Consultant Office of California State Senator Sheila Kuehl AB 8 (Nunez/Perata) passes Senate Health Committee Governor touts his outline for health reform but has no legislation SB 840 continues as the only tested plan In early January of this year, a flood of health insurance reform plans were

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